Introduction I have three specific aims: firstly, to review some of the concepts supporting contemporary American (USA) Psychiatry; secondly, to explain the origins, strengths, and frailties ofthese particular foundations; and thirdly, to provide examples of activity in the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine that intends to both revise and restructure these foundations...

In this paper, first we prove common fixed point theorems for a pair of weakly compatible maps. Secondly, we prove a fixed point theorem for weakly compatible maps along with (CLRg) property. In fact, our results generalize the results of Z. Mustafa et al. [10]. 2000 AMS Classification: 47H10, 54H25

The purpose of this paper is to, firstly explain the reason of international trade according to recent theories; secondly, collect several sorts of opinions about free trade and protectionism referring to relevant literatures; thirdly describe export barriers in different aspects, such as natural barriers and artificial barriers; lastly from trade regulation perspective introduce WTO as a tool ...

deaf is used in two contexts: firstly, when referring to all deaf people in general (hence, deaf football); and secondly, when writing specifically about those deaf people for whom deafness means being unable to hear, rather than having any linguistic or cultural connotations. This group includes those people who refer to themselves as ‘deafened’, ‘hard of hearing’, ‘hearing impaired’ and other...

First we study some properties of the modular group algebra Fpr [G] where G is the additive group of a Galois ring of characteristic pr and Fpr is the field of p r elements. Secondly a description of the Generalized Reed-Muller codes over Fpr in Fpr [G] is presented.

To obtain maximum unobtrusiveness with sensors for monitoring health parameters on the human body, two technical solutions are combined. First we propose contactless sensors for capacitive electromyography measurements. Secondly, the sensors are integrated into textile, so complete fusion with a wearable garment is enabled. We are presenting the first successful measurements with such sensors. ...

This report presents the approach of stochastic recursive equations (SRE) for the modeling and performance analysis of parallel systems. The aim of the paper is twofold. Firstly, we show how performance measures of many parallel systems can be adequately described and obtained using stochastic recursive equations. Secondly, we give an assesment on the capability of the SRE approach.

Economists agree that governance is one of the critical factors explaining the divergence in performance across developing countries. The differences of view between economists regarding governance are to do first, with the types of state capacities that constitute the critical governance capacities necessary for the acceleration of development and secondly, with the importance of governance re...

We present some improvements of a previous environment mapping work. Firstly, we relax a previous restriction about the environment orthogonality. And secondly, we increase the environment coverage by extending occupancy information in the map. Finally, some results show how that extension process yields to safer paths when extended maps are used for planning.

In this paper, we present a third-order Newton-type method to solve systems of nonlinear equations. In the first we present theoretical preliminaries of the method. Secondly, we solve some systems of nonlinear equations. All test problems show the third-order convergence of our method. 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.